Prisoners granted the right to vote

Prisoners in Kenya have been given the right to vote in a referendum on a new constitution.

In a historic ruling, five judges sitting in a special constitutional court, ordered the government to allow prison inmates to register within three weeks.

The case came after prisoners in the coastal city of Mombasa claimed that their rights as Kenyan citizens were being violated because they were not allowed to decide how they should be governed.

BBC Focus on Africa's Odhiambo Joseph was in court.